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What is COVAX? How a global initiative is helping get COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries
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What is COVAX?
COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access is an initiative launched by the WHO to ensure vaccine access to the world’s most vulnerable.Francis Kokoroko/COVAX via Unicef
LONDON As rich countries race to inoculate their populations against COVID-19, poorer nations have fallen behind in the biggest vaccination campaign in history.
But a global vaccine-sharing scheme aims to ensure rapid and equitable access to vaccines for all countries regardless of income. Although there are a number of obstacles, the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) initiative may be the best bet on worldwide immunization against the novel coronavirus.
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Speaking to BBC Hausa of Friday, a witness who didn’t want his name mentioned, said the armed men were more than 100.
He said some of the parents who visited the school after the incident slumped when they learnt that their daughters were among those abducted.
According to him, “The gunmen, numbering more than 100 stormed the school around 1:40am on Friday and abducted 373 students.
“They were shooting sporadically, asked the schoolgirls to wake up and pray, while the girls were all crying before they took them into forest.
“They spent like 1:30 minutes after abducting the girls before leaving the school shooting sporadically. There was no any security operative around the area then.
How Elephantiasis ruined three generations of a family
When Asiru Bukola was a young girl, she dreamt of becoming a nurse and her rich businesswoman mother was willing to see this come through. But Asiru caught a troubling disease that would ruin both mother and child and severely affect a third generation of the family.
When Asiru Bukola (not real name) was 15, she loved swimming in a body of water close to her home in Ibadan.
Until one day, she experienced a strange itching sensation on her leg. She didn’t know this at the time but it was the start of something that would change her life.